4 SEPTEMBER 1830, Page 21
"Dash from thy lips the treacherous glass." By J. F.
REDDIE.
If the author had shown this and the preceding song to any judicious friend, he would have said, " Publish the 'first, but not the second." The structure and melody of this air are very commonplace ; and the accent in the second bar of the third page is needlessly incorrect. The third bar should have begun with the word "fade." We are amazed at the ignorance which the composers and adaptrs of songs continually mani- fest in this branch of their art. Is it not obvious—and very easy ?